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To: Roscoe
I am aware of no cases prior to the New Deal that characterized the power flowing from the Commerce Clause as sweepingly as does our substantial effects test. My review of the case law indicates that the substantial effects test is but an innovation of the 20th century.

-Justice Clarence Thomas

567 posted on 10/03/2002 3:08:37 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic
"I am aware of no cases prior to the New Deal that characterized the power flowing from the Commerce Clause as sweepingly as does our substantial effects test." -- ClarenceThomas

But you, tacticalogic, have produced exactly nothing to show that the CSA is grounded solely in a "substantial effects" argument. The very text of the CSA lays that misrepresentation to rest.

569 posted on 10/03/2002 3:16:11 PM PDT by Roscoe
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